Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck.

Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want to read or hear is praise.

Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience dwindles down, are in perpetual flight; that each of them is...

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn’t be prepared to make for other people.

Feminism’s failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of...

What someone else thinks of you is not what you have to think of yourself.

There is no point of relaying statistics on rape because for every figure given there are thousands missing, unreported. It is a shameful state we have created where a victim chooses to endure the pain...

His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can’t be criticized as a concept, because there’s none there, and it can’t be criticized as temperament, because temperament can’t be criticized.

No-one ever built a statue of a critic.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

Our critics make us strong!Our fears make us bold!Our haters make us wise!Our foes make us active!Our obstacles make us passionate!Our losses make us wealthy!Our disappointments make us appointed!Our unseen treasures give us aknown peace!Whatever...

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

We’re all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent — criticism.

[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to discredit an author’s nose for things, he would be reduced to...

The criticism by China is groundless. What we are doing has nothing to do with changing the status quo.

One Accuracy about criticism is that you don’t ask for it but it’s given to you. How you deal with it? Says a lot about you. People may criticize you for many reasons. You can’t...

The last time we did this there was some criticism on our procedure. It wasn’t the selection. I want to make that very clear. It was the way we handled ourselves on the logistics of...

Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes (the) banal and common change (language); he ascribes it to moral failing.

Okay, let’s put this another way―if what you’re about to say wouldn’t look good permanently engraved on your tombstone, bite your tongue.

I believe in criticism.

Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.

When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for...

I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, “If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don’t, you won’t be able to understand your own...